The world is heavy and late

Chapter 288 Xuzhou
Inside the carriage, Xia Qing pinched Xu Zhong's arm fiercely: "Are you good at martial arts? A strong man can still grab a knife. Why don't we, who are small like us, be sure?"

Xu Zhong stretched out his hand and patted the hand that looked firm and didn't exert much force, his brows remained on, and he first shouted to Cheng Dalang outside: "Hurry up."

Then he turned to look at Xia Qing worriedly, thought for a while and said, "You are here to visit celebrities, why don't you make a detour first?"

Xia Qing sneered, this time he really used his strength, gritted his teeth and said, "Didn't you realize in the past that Eunuch Xu is so self-sacrificing?"

Xu Zhong felt the pain in his arm, smiled wryly, and looked at Xia Qing helplessly: "Xia Qing, it's very dangerous."

Xia Qing spoke very naturally, as if he didn't understand Xu Zhong's meaning: "So hurry up, if you really let those people go, it will be dangerous."

There were only five of them, too few, and they couldn't stop the whole village, not to mention that those young and strong people had a lot of gangster spirit, and they didn't know how many people had been robbed.

Xia Qing and Xu Zhong made a decision almost in an instant. They couldn't stop people forcibly, otherwise it was hard to say whether they would die here, so what else would they talk about?
Xia Qing and Xu Zhong both began to think deeply, with the same dignified expression, Xia Qing asked: "Eunuch, do you think those people will listen to me and come back?"

Xu Zhong shook his head and said, "No."

Xia Qing sighed: "I guess it's the same. They have already decided to leave, so they won't listen to us anymore."

Xu Zhong said with a calm face: "This is not right."

Xia Qing's eyes slowly gathered a storm: "The governor and Mr. Guo are both in Xuzhou, and so many people can still escape. Is it because the people above are unwilling, or are the people below not doing their best?"

Xu Zhong took out some official documents to read, then put them down gently: "It's not known yet."

Xia Qing nodded and said: "Write a letter to His Majesty, recruit imperial physicians and craftsmen to Xuzhou, and blockade the city and strictly prohibit the movement of people with Xuzhou household registration. If it spreads..."

There is no need to say more here, the epidemic spreads, the people flee, and the country is in turmoil, no one can expect to be good.

As they said that, the two began to act. Cheng Dalang, who was sitting outside and heard this, was sweating all over while waving his whip fiercely.

Really rushing, it only took nearly two hours to get to the gate of Xuzhou City.

But thinking of the group of people who had left before, Xia Qing and Xu Zhong's expressions were a little bad, and they were even worse when they were stopped at the gate of the city.

The best hope is that Xuzhou City has not discovered the epidemic, so the victims fled, but when they were stopped at the gate of the city and were not allowed to enter, Xia Qing understood that it was not that they had not discovered it, but that they had not discovered it at all. people blocked.

Hou San brandished a knife outside and shouted: "Grandma, bear, please take a good look at it, this is Mr. Xu personally sent by His Majesty, hurry up and open the city gate."

Xu Zhong also raised the curtain of the carriage and said coldly: "Why are you not allowed to enter the city?"

The gatekeepers looked at each other a few times, hesitated to speak, but couldn't speak, so they had to lower their heads, but they didn't dare to open the door.

Xu Zhong asked again: "Whose warrant is it?"

This question is not difficult to answer: "Return to the Lord, it is the warrant of the Governor."

Xu Zhong squinted at the high city wall under the sun and the closed city gate in front of him: "Let Inspector Xu come to see me in person and send an order to garrison the troops. If there are people with the disease fleeing ahead, quickly recover them."

The person at the gate of the city opened his eyes wide and was about to speak: "My lord..."

Before Xu Zhong could speak, Xia Qing who was behind directly reached out with a token and said, "Is this enough, don't hurry up."

Everyone was startled when they saw the token in Xia Qing's hand, kneeling on the ground and about to shout, Xia Qing said in a cold voice: "I want to see the governor of Xuzhou and the soldiers leaving the city within a quarter of an hour, otherwise Sentences shall be executed in accordance with the decree of resistance.”

Now that no one had any objections, a few people quickly opened the city gate and went in. The few people left were still kneeling on the ground and did not dare to get up, and Xia Qing didn't let them get up.

The sun in the second half of the day was still dazzling, especially in Xuzhou, a land that hadn't rained for several months, and there were waves of heat in the air.

The guarding soldiers kneeling on the ground were sweating profusely on their foreheads, Cheng Dalang was standing beside the carriage, Hou San and Zhu Ba did not get off their horses, but their knives were tightly held, facing the city gate.

Xu Zhong and Xia Qing were sitting in the carriage, Xia Qing closed his eyes and thought about something, Xu Zhong asked the people below: "Since the city is closed, why are there still people running out?"

The soldier guarding the city hung his head low, unable to see the expression on his face at all, and replied in a low voice: "There are also many villages outside this city, and they don't pass through this city gate."

Xu Zhong looked confused and asked back: "Really?"

The soldiers guarding the city shivered subconsciously. Although it was the hottest weather in June and July, he felt himself shivering all over: "Yes... yes, many villages and towns outside Xuzhou city also belong to Xuzhou. Only enter the city when bartering."

Xu Zhong raised his eyelids and looked at the soldiers guarding the city: "Which village would people go out on this official road to escape?"

The guarding soldier's scalp was numb, he looked left and right, then swallowed and said, "No, no, I don't know, even the small ones don't know."

Xu Zhongdi's face was very dark but he didn't speak, Xia Qing closed his eyes and opened his eyes and said, "It's not clear, I thought you were very clear."

The guarding soldiers did not speak, just as the city gate opened, a single horse came galloping, followed by a group of people, Xuzhou Inspector Shen Changfeng stopped the horse as soon as he saw the carriage at the door, and looked at the people in the carriage, "Master Xu, how long has it been?" not see."

Xu Zhong also bowed his hands respectfully, then pointed to the direction behind him and said, "Hurry up and catch up, you must catch up, there are some people in that group who are suffering from the epidemic."

Shen Changfeng waved his hand, and a dozen people rode their horses past Xu Zhong's carriage and went away. Xu Zhongcai said, "Do you want to write a letter to Your Majesty?"

Shen Changfeng nodded and said, "I just finished writing the urgent document, and I am about to send it to someone."

Xu Zhong nodded, took out a document and handed it to Zhu Ba who was next to him, and said to Shen Changfeng: "Let them deliver it, faster than your messenger, they have His Majesty's handwriting on them."

After Zhu Ba had seen the situation in Xuzhou, how could he dare to leave easily, he cupped his hands and said: "My lord, if you don't hand over the handwriting to others, there must be someone by your side."

Xu Zhong was about to refuse, but Zhu Ba, who followed him all the way, had already read Xu Zhong's mind and said, "Even if your lord doesn't need it, Madam should have someone to follow."

Xu Zhong was stunned for a moment, and Shen Changfeng, who was a few meters away, also looked away from Xia Qing who was sitting in the carriage. Xia Qing raised his eyes and looked at Shen Changfeng.

Xu Zhong's identity is not a secret in Xuzhou, so he has long guessed that the woman sitting with Xu Zhong is either an extremely vulgar person or an extraordinary person, but he did not expect such sharp eyes, this is not the eyes of ordinary people .

Looking at Xu Zhong, Xia Qing hesitated for a while and said: "Zhu Ba, go, take the governor's lord with you; Hou San stay, just guard me and lord."

Zhu Ba thought for a while, and seeing Hou San's indifferent eyes gave him a headache, is this fool really okay?

But Xia Qing said that it was impossible to change this matter, Zhu Ba saluted, and happened to fight off with Shen Changfeng's men.

At this time, it was Xu Zhong and Shen Changfeng's turn to talk: "How is the situation in Xuzhou?"

Shen Changfeng's eyes skipped over the gatekeepers, and he didn't say anything, but the invisible pressure made these soldiers who didn't get up lower their heads even lower.

Shen Changfeng led Xia Qing and Xu Zhong into the door, and replied: "It's not very good, the granaries in the city won't last long, and you know, sometimes there is an epidemic."

One of them was sitting in a carriage and the other was riding a horse. There were not many pedestrians walking on the street, which was very different from when Xu Zhong came.

Xu Zhong only asked some basic information casually, and didn't say much. No matter how secret things were kept on the street, neither of them was very concerned.

(End of this chapter)